Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy

lol

Pretty great.

Not in the news enough. Cut off tits? Maybe she doesn't care, but it seems like overkill when she can also afford to get regular examinations and likely already does considering the expensive insurance physically appealing stars often have.

Agraza_sl said:

Not in the news enough. Cut off tits? Maybe she doesn't care, but it seems like overkill when she can also afford to get regular examinations and likely already does considering the expensive insurance physically appealing stars often have.

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I don't understand how it's overkill when she's overwhelmingly likely to develop cancer. Because they were really nice?

Trollface_sl said:

. . . every woman will get a mastectomy to minimize the chance of breast cancer and go for a breast implant surgery. every woman will have wonderful boobs. everyone wins.

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^^^

The version where you keep your breasts and nipple intact will always leave a risk- even if small- also it is a lot more time consuming and expensive proceadure- and it is also a newer proceadure... a standard mastectomy with reconstruction is two parts- first off goes the boob...all of it from top to bottom its taken off and cleaned out of breast tissue underneath- then your skin is swen up- after that is fully healed - and your skin gains proper growth in that area and its elasticity you then can get implants, a fake nipple is made by making a little skin flap and tatooing the color.

The newer and what is gaining populatirty is kinda like...think of scooping the fruit out of the melon to the skin, then replacing the meat/fruit with an implant- it obviously holds a higher risk of "return" or the growth of cancer as you have your skin and nipple, your nipple will still hold some breast tissue and there may be some tissue that didnt get fully cleaned out-- although it is small risk for what would equate to keeping your outer breast intact. Also most insurances wont cover the "nice" proceadure because of the 0.00001% chance vs a full cut off of 0.0000000001% chance.

random source info

http://www.empowher.com/breast-cance...dr-wasif-video

and my mom had breast cancer and all the stuff she dealt with in it.

So just to say, screw it- if you have the gene get the proceadure and have nice implant breasts is not really accurate or available- most will end up like barbie dolls with a scar across their water-boob.

spronk_sl said:

whats messed up is that the tests to determine if you have the high risk genes cost $3k+ so people without health insurance are fucked. the tests cost 1/10th the cost in the rest of the world

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Umm no. For $99 you can get your complete genetic profile ran. Checks for 50 carriers, 21 drug responses, 57 traits, and 120 Disease risks, including the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. They are always adding more to the list as research progresses as well. Check yourself before you wreck yourself bro.

https://www.23andme.com/

I'm kind of tempted to check out that 23 and me thing. Anyone else done it?

My Genetics professor endorsed it and she's pretty credible, worked with J. Craig Venter at one point. It's like anything else though, if you get atypical results, then do your due diligence in getting them confirmed/retested.

spronk_sl said:

whats messed up is that the tests to determine if you have the high risk genes cost $3k+ so people without health insurance are fucked. the tests cost 1/10th the cost in the rest of the world

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The REAL messed up part is that the specific drug company that runs these tests has patented the fucking gene that is being tested so they are the only ones who offer this test.

TheBeagle_sl said:

Umm no. For $99 you can get your complete genetic profile ran. Checks for 50 carriers, 21 drug responses, 57 traits, and 120 Disease risks, including the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. They are always adding more to the list as research progresses as well. Check yourself before you wreck yourself bro.

https://www.23andme.com/

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I did this a few years ago when they had the $500 version for only $100 on national DNA day. Both my wife and I got it done since she's adopted we figured it'd be interesting. It seems very accurate, all of my high risk factors were cancers etc that had already taken place in my family so I was aware of it. The rest was interesting too. Now it seems that it's gone subscription based so I hardly ever get updates or anything since I'm not subscribed.

She's also got a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer. So guesswhat's next on the chopping block.

Well, she has enough kids already ;P

I did the 23andMe thing. It basically said that I will have a life-long urge to post pussy.

Seriously, it's rather neat and I recommend it.

Cross posting from the other mastectomy thread.

http://www.naturalnews.com/040365_an..._decision.html

No idea if this is just some random nutjob or not but it was interesting and relevant.

EXPOSED: Angelina Jolie part of a clever corporate scheme to protect billions in BRCA gene patents, influence Supreme Court decision (opinion)

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Her mothers sister just died today from breast cancer at age 61.

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/a...-breast-cancer

I find the timing amusing, and I'm sure the conspiracy theorist will have a field day with it. That being said, lots of people die in their 50's and 60's. Who wants to live to be 90 any fuckin' way?